There are at least two statements which go by the name of Artin's conjecture.
If
is any continuous complex
finite-dimensional group representation of
the absolute Galois group of a number
field, then Artin showed how to associate an Artin
L-function
with it. These
-series
directly generalize zeta functions and Dirichlet
L-series, and as a result of work by Richard Brauer,
is known to extend to a meromorphic
function on the complex plane. Artin's first
conjecture states that it is in fact holomorphic,
i.e., has no poles, with the possible exception of a pole at
(Artin 1924). Compare with the generalized
Riemann hypothesis, which deals with the locations of the zeros
of certain
-series.
Artin's second conjecture states that every integer not equal to
or a square number is a primitive
root modulo
for infinitely many
and proposes a natural density for the set
of such
which is a rational multiple of a constant
known as Artin's constant. There is an analogous
theorem for functions instead of numbers which has been
proved by Billharz (Shanks 1993, p. 147).